Description

Cremona Elipsa, a major new introduction for Sonus Faber, is placed at the top of the highly regarded Cremona range yet borrows its sonic and design cues from the ultimate, Stradivari Homage.

Chief among the physical design elements is the use of the infinite baffle form pioneered on the Stradivari.  Extensive use of sub-structural stiffening spars breaks up remaining resonance nodes.  Wider than it is deep, this elliptical cabinet construction couples easily with even difficult room acoustics allowing bass to roll effortlessly into the listening space.  Here, the form is more tightly tailored and the reduction in overall scale works to its advantage allowing it to be easily integrated into a variety of listening spaces.

For Sonus faber, the drivers are crucial to the sonic success of their approach.  Sonus Faber continues its recent tradition of reducing moving mass, stiffening the coned drivers, while asking the tweeter t o extend out well into the 40kHz region.  What makes this recipe so remarkable is that as with all Sonus fabers balance and harmonic richness is retained.  For lesser designers, lightening and stiffening might well result in hard and brittle, but not here.  Instead, we find a true baby "Strad", powerful yet refined, dynamic and spacious.

Click HERE for the first English review of the Cremona Elipsa speakers

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